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...vibrator, Magic Fingers." Maureen, a black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates a shipyard crane. She, Polly and three or four other sisters in honest toil are being vaguely menaced by a Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah's ordinarily vivid prose seems flattened toward objectivity. Scenery is telescoped: "Aero-scan of birds, all kinds of seabirds, sea, Puget Sound with boat life, wharfs, seals, howling noisy seabirds again, here and there a helicopter." Background music...
...truck to rescue a colonial barn in distress, snatching a comely example of Scottish extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family home in New Marlboro, 18 miles south. Thus was ignited the peculiar passion that, 75 recyclings later, still drives the master builder. "I'm an evangelist, truth to tell," he says. "Some men are called to save souls. I was called to save barns...
What takes place in front of the pasteboard façades? Many unconnected things. Martin senses that his behavior with the two sisters is a mite unusual: "I tried to feel peculiar about being married to one and sleeping with the other, but it didn't work." Then his soon to be ex-wife shows up at the motel. So does Dominica's former husband Mel, who may be the one who has spread glass on her beachfront and menaced her in other ominous and anonymous ways. On the other hand, Mel may be innocent. His brother Minnie arrives, bearing...
...college experiences, are surprised by the poverty of partying on this campus. Yet it is unfair to claim that “Cambridge lacks a social scene for students below or just above the legal drinking age—namely undergrads,†and it is downright peculiar not to mention Boston as a possible destination for socializing...
...panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals one of Huizenga's curious shifts in time...